Deck 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Oliver Hazard Perry

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
sectionalism

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​loose construction

Answer 3

​Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nationalism

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
protective tariff

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Fenimore Cooper

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry Clay

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
noncolonization

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Isaac Brock

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Francis Scott Key

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
peculiar institution

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Macdonough

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Quincy Adams

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Daniel Webster

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
General Andrew Jackson

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Marshall

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Monroe

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Washington Irving

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
General William Henry Harrison

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
internal improvements

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Cohens v. Virginia ​(1821)

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Second Bank of the United States

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Dartmouth College v. Woodward ​(1819)

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Constitution

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The American System

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Horseshoe Bend

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Panic of 1819

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Virginia dynasty

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nonintervention

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tariff of 1816

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of the Thames

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
sectionalism

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
isolationism

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Era of Good Feelings

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ohio fever

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Florida Purchase Treaty (Adams-Oñis Treaty) of 1819

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Anglo-American Convention

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Missouri Compromise

Question 42

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Fort Niagara

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Monroe Doctrine

Question 44

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Cumberland Road

Question 45

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Fort McHenry

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Plattsburgh

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Russo-American Treaty of 1824

Question 48

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Detroit

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Land Act of 1820

Question 50

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ New Orleans

Question 51

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Missouri Territory

Question 52

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Erie Canal

Question 53

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Thames River

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Treaty of Ghent

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of New Orleans

Question 56

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Michilimackinac

Question 57

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Lake Champlain

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tallmadge Amendment

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Blue Light" Federalists

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hartford Convention

Question 61

The British attack on Fort McHenry

A)resulted in another decisive British military victory.
B)made possible the British invasion of Washington, D.C.
C)inspired the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key.
D)produced the "Bladensburg Races."
E)was the decisive military turning point in the War of 1812.

Question 62

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ forty-ninth parallel

Question 63

Perhaps the key battle of the War of 1812, because it protected the United States from full-scale invasion and possible dissolution, was the Battle of

A)Mackinac.
B)Plattsburgh.
C)the Thames.
D)Horseshoe Bend.
E)Fallen Timbers.

Question 64

By 1814, the British strategy included all of the following except

A)invading New York.
B)invading the Chesapeake Bay area.
C)invading the Delaware and Hudson Valleys.
D)blockading the Atlantic coast.
E)invading New Orleans and the Mississippi Valley.

Question 65

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Pensacola

Question 66

Canada became an important battleground in the War of 1812 because

A)it was the economic hub of the New England economy.
B)Canadians would be willing to help the Americans overthrow the imperial yoke of British rule.
C)British forces were weakest there.
D)the United States could rely on the military and economic support of French Canadians against the British.
E)Canada held important strategic military bases from which the Americans could attack the British.

Question 67

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Maine

Question 68

The War of 1812 was one of the worst fought wars in American history for all of the following reasons except that

A)the militia was never called up to supplement the regular army.
B)disunity was widespread.
C)only a zealous minority supported the war.
D)at first, many of the generals were senile Revolutionary War veterans.
E)the militia was poorly trained.

Question 69

The most devastating defeat suffered by the British during the War of 1812 took place at the Battle of

A)New Orleans.
B)Horseshoe Bend.
C)Tippecanoe.
D)the Thames.
E)Baltimore.

Question 70

America's military campaigns against Canada in the War of 1812 were

A)unusual for its brilliant military leadership.
B)poorly conceived strategically and successfully repelled by the British and Canadians.
C)marked by good coordination of a complicated strategy.
D)a failure because they focused each of the campaigns on Montreal.
E)a success on land but a failure on the water.

Question 71

British plans for their 1814 campaign did not include action in

A)New York.
B)Washington, D.C.
C)Florida.
D)New Orleans.
E)Chesapeake Bay.

Question 72

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Oregon County

Question 73

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ 36° 30'

Question 74

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Lake of the Woods

Question 75

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ St. Marks

Question 76

The War of 1812 was notable in the history of American warfare because

A)of the high level of American domestic dissent and opposition to the war.
B)no talented military commanders emerged.
C)of inadequate financing of the war.
D)the historically high level of Americans killed and wounded in military action.
E)of the nation's apathy and national disunity.

Question 77

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ West Florida

Question 78

The performance of the United States' Navy in the War of 1812 could be best described as

A)poor and unsuccessful in every category.
B)less successful than that of the army.
C)courageous but strategically ineffective.
D)ineffective on the Great Lakes.
E)overall surprisingly successful and skillful against the accomplished British ships and commanders.

Question 79

All of the following were true of the American regular army on the eve of the War of 1812 except

A)they were ill-trained and ill-disciplined.
B)they were widely scattered.
C)their numbers were large enough that they did not have to rely on state militias.
D)most of the generals were leftovers from the Revolutionary War and lacked vigor and vision.
E)there was no burning national anger to unite Americans against the British.

Question 80

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​Battles and Strategic Locales in the War of 1812
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____ Mobile